Commercial Real Estate Blog

Word is a buyer has been picked by Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL). BEA paid about about $335 psf ($130M) in 2007 for the 388,000 square foot tower. You can read more about the story of the tower in a previous post. If I had to guess, I’d say the building will trade for significantly less than what BEA paid for it. It’s going to take a serious piece of equity to buy this vacant building and tenant it up.

I’m going to make a prediction here and say that the buyer is going to pay around $260-270 psf ($100-$104M) for the tower. And since we’re making predictions, I’ll predict the buyer is either (in this order): Legacy Partners, Boston Properties, or Tishman Speyer.

Anybody else want to make a prediction?

KT Properties has acquired the property locatd at 1 South Market St in Downtown San Jose from Haury Properties. Plans for the site include high-rise condominiums but could be changed to office if the demand materializes. KT and its partners are currently developing the AXIS residential condo project located at Santa Clara and N Almaden Boulevard.

Haury originally had been holding the site for office development but later changed those plans into residential as the office market cooled.

The city seems to prefer that the 1 S Market site go office but it doesn’t make any sense at current rents Downtonw. Legacy is in the process of building the second tower at RiverPark on W San Carlos, and the BEA building is up in the air now that Oracle is acquiring them. In addition, Boston Properties and Barry Swenson control land downtown at a lower cost basis which could go office.

I attended a CoreNet Global dinner event at the Four Seasons in San Francisco on thursday honoring the Corporate Real Estate Service Provider of the Year as well as the Corporate Real Estate Professional of the Year for the Northern California Chapter.

This year’s winners were Joan Price of Gensler for the CRE Service Provider of the Year award, and Frank Jesse of BEA Systems for the CRE Professional of the Year.

This year’s dinner honoring the winners brought out about 450 corporate and industry professionals. It was a great event and a good opportunity to connect face-to-face with individuals I have interfaced with over email and phone. Another pleasant surprise was running into a few clients!